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Forty Overseas students were expelled from the Polytechnic THROWNon Monday, after they had failed to meet the final deadline for OUT the payment of their academic fees. At least sixteen of the students are Iranian, and have been Enquiry refused unable to pay because of the confusion that exists in their country. Since the deposition of the Shah, the status of students already studying in Britain has been in some doubt. There used to be a great variety of sponsorship schemes to enable Iranian students to come to Britain, but since the Islamic revolution the Iranian Government has taken over the financing of these students. They have already agreed to emergency fund of £500 and had finance the majority of the 150 no reserves to call on to help even Iranian students at the Polytechnic, the 16 students who have asked for but a few remain in doubt about help. their future. The Education Department will 90 students were excluded from readmit the students as soon as lectures on 25th January and given they get a written pledge from the until last Monday to pay their fees Iranian Government that the fees or be expelled. Only the sixteen will be paid. So far the Embassy has Iranians have approached the Union not been forthcoming and says only Executive for help and the identity that money is on the way for some Geoff Brighton of the rest is unknown. of the students. Lord Hoyle ‘This is the most Mr. Mrvos described the The University Vice aspect of the whole affair” saia behaviour of the Embassy as By Hugh Bateson Lord Boyle also pointed out that Union President Stevan Mrvos, “I “chaotic” Chancellor, Lord Boyle has Student Health had given medical wish these students would come “We’re trying to put pressure on refused to instigate an enquiry certificates to four homosexuals forward so that we can help them”. the Embassy and the Council in recent years, without putting the Mr. Mrvos has alerted NUS Education Department to act justly into the Geoffrey Brighton an enquiry the impression would be fact on the forms. President Trevor Phillips to the and honourably”, he said. affair. Speaking at a public given that the University thought He said, too, that the University plight of the Iranians, and both Meanwhile the Iranians who meeting in the University that there was an element of guilt would be writing to the nave been in contact with the have now lost their status as in the case. Department of Education and Iranian Embassy. Mr. Mrvos has students face the possibility of Union on Wednesday, he Mr. Brighton is the homosexual also approached the Director of being deported at any moment. revealed that the decision had student who has been refused a Science complaining about the Education on Lee.ds City Council, Many of the students affected been made by the University medical certificate until he has seen wording ot the certificate. One Mr. Stuart Johnson, with a view to are in their final year of study and Council last week. He said, a psychiatrist. He is demanding a question refers to “abnormality of establishing a moratorium on the the uncertainty of their present “I can not see that either the full enquiry into the conduct of personality and behaviour”. Lord expusion of students whose fees position, combined with their two Doctors at Student Health, Dr. Boyle suggested that this be are beyond their own control. exclusion from lectures and classes past record of Student Health, or changed to “psychological Mr. Mrvos explained that the over the last five weeks has their conduct in this case gives Ryan and Dr. Fraser during the suitability” Polytechnic Union only had an grounds for a full enquiry”. affair. damaged their academic prospects. He said that if there were to be Lord Boyle denied that a Mr. Brighton however, was far student’s sexuality was a deciding from satisfied with Lord Boyle’s factor in admissions policy, and speech. He said that the new stressed that homosexuality was wording was much worse than the not regarded by the University as ofd, a medical matter, he said, “It gives doctors a carte-blanche ’Jinx hits LANUS week “Not only is homosexuality not to excercise prejudice” he said. The second half of the Leeds to have some kind of jinx on Union Executive full praise, they a disease, but it is not in itself a He rejected totally Lord Boyle’s Area NUS Week of Action has it” did a marvellous job at some events. form of lesser mental disorder or claim that he had not been referred met with the same fate as the After a LANUS Executive I’m very pleased with how they moral fault”. to a psychiatrist simply because he meeting on Monday, Mr. Peel said have assisted. In the past they have He refused to answer the charges is homosexual, pointing out that first, as one event after that he believed that one of the put very little into the Area, but I made by Mr. Brighton and his he was released by Dr. Ryan and another has been poorly reasons why the week met with so now believe we have full supporters, though, that matters then recalled after the Doctor had attended or cancelled. As little success was that the Area did co-operation”. of a non-medical nature should not examined his medical file, LANUS General Secretary not get full co-opration from the It has been suggested by appear on medical files, “During the examination John Peel said, 12 colleges in Leeds. However, he members of LANUS Executive that “We cannot prescribe what a there were no signs of abnormality pointed out that some of the the whole idea of demonstrations doctor puts on records. I am not or Dr. Ryan would not have let me ‘The whole event seemed colleges had their own internal and occupations is out of date, and prepared to make a comment on go. I was passed as fit, and then problems to deal with, particularly that students cannot now be what Dr. Fraser included in a file”. recalled when they looked at my the Polytechnic, and could’nt give mobilised as they were in the 60’s. He said that he was convinced file”, he said. as much support as they would Speaking of the future of that Mr. Brighton had not been He rejected too, the claim that As today is February 29th, and have liked to. LANUS, Mr. Peel said that he referred to a psychiatrist simply he would be at risk as a teacher Another factor that concerned thinks changes are necessary, but because he was a homosexual, but from pupils, he said, people bom today don’t have him was that many students do he added, because he faced “risk” from pupils “That is an utter insult drawing many birthdays, we would like to not realise how the cuts are “I’m not in favour of sweeping as a teacher in the future. He said on a stereotyped image” affecting them. He condemned this changes, changing things slowly gets that there was a difference between Mr. Brigthon said that he would wish those of you with a birthday attitude as “selfish and short­ a better result”. the two, be pushing forthe University Charter sighted”. One idea being discussed is the “I am absolutely clear that in to include a clause against today Mr. Peel was pleased, though, setting up of a consortium to help good faith Student Health did think discrimination on the grounds of HAPPY BIRTHDAY. with the way the University Union the smaller colleges with getting there was a distinction. Not all sexual orientation. It already had co-operated, good contracts for gaming machines homosexuals are regarded as being condemsn discrimination on the “I must give the University and supplies. at risk”. grounds of sex, creed, or colour. I n s i d e Ghosts - pages 6 and 7 Letters - page 4 The Rose - page 8 UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS LEEDS A ~ n ~ r t / - Page 2 LEEDS STUDENT - 29th February 1980 LEEDS STUDENT Union prepares 29th February 1980 for hardship The National Union of seems to be organised by an outside Students is preparing to suffer By Ben Huston political group”. a series of financial blows, The financial situation is not which could threaten its this is so” she said. helped by the continuing uncertain­ Who’s next? activities, according to a The growth in the trend to ty about subscriptions. Another It has taken some time to happen, but at last the first strong report in the Times Higher disaffiliate is also worrying NUS, special conference last weekend action has been taken against Overseas students who cannot pay Education Supplement this “It affects our finances, but failed to find a scheme on which their fees, the Polytechnic has run out of patience and expelled week. what is worrying us more is that it everyone could agree. them. The precedent has been set, and it is likely that the same Demand thing will happen more and more in the future. The most serious shock is a The really sad thing is that students who have spent two or demand from the Customs and three years studying in the knowledge that a worthwhile qualifi­ Excise Department that the NUS should pay VAT at 15% on its total Help detainees cation awaited them now can do nothing but see that time and subscription income, which is more effort destroyed, through no fault of their own. The reaction of than £1 million a year. other students to this is not likely to be powerful or bitter, but The Union also stands to lose what would it be like if this was happening to a part of the SWAPO pleads another £30,000 if Dundee Uni­ Engineering Department at the University? A number of versity, Reading University and Students in Leeds are to be asked to campaign against the finalists and second years expelled, the backlash would be Kings College, London confirm holding of political prisoners in Namibia, in Southern Africa. Ms recent votes to disaffiliate from Lucia Hamuteyna, a full time SWAPO (South West African strong. The fact that it is Overseas students who are suffering NUS! In addition other colleges are People’s Organisation) official, made the plea in a visit to Leeds first does not disguise the importance of the step. Plainly beginning to consider disaffiliating. this week. students can expect a harsh response to pleas of hardship in the NUS Treasurer Helen Connor Ms Hamuteyna, who has herself torture future, even though the Polytechnic claims to have waited as has also said that inflation, cuts in been detained on three separate “I went 120 days without sleep, long as possible before taking action. public spending, and the proposed occasions, claimed that many There was a kind of radiation, changes in the methods of funding people detained by the South whenever I tried to sleep I suffered Unions will not ease the situation, African authorities have been from hallucinations”. “What all these factors mean is tortured. She said that in one raid Ms Hamuteyna outlined a that we will undoubtedly have to in 1978 on a refugee camp in number of ways in which she hoped look carefully at the Union’s Kassinga in Southern Angola, the that British people would help, Not such a fiasco priorities in the future. The NUS is South Africans killed 600 people “I call upon British communities At last there are signs that LANUS may not be totally out of just not going to % have the same and arrested 200 more; of these to campaign for the release of touch. This may seem strange after the debacle of their “Week amount of money to spend from 200, she said, only 35 had so far political detainees in Southern now on. Our immediate worry is been released. Africa. The people of Africa look of Action”, but the notion that students cannot be motivated in that we may have to pay VAT on Ms Hamuteyna alleged that up to you” she said. the same way as during the sixties has at least surfaced from the our subscriptions because of new South African authorities She called for economic sanctions blundering. It is not a revolutionary idea, but if student leaders EEC regulations introduced in the committed atrocities against against South Africa, and asked are taking it into account, then perhaps the standard of repre­ country, but we are contesting the Namibians, including electric shock students to write to their MP’s and treatment and beatings. She to the Administrator General of sentation might be raised. Perhaps it is time to realise that "'“"S'" Trend claimed that people had been Namibia condemning detention. students do not want participative democracy, and that She explained that the rules thrown out of low-flying She also suggested that groups of however sad that might seem, a change might be needed. allowed for organisations that are helicopters. students “adopted” a detainee and If there is no change, the danger is that the “voice” of directly accountable to their “The lucky ones broke their kept asking the South African students, becomes simply that of activists, and not of students. membership to be exempt, limbs, the others died”, she said. authorities about specific “We are arguing that at least When she was detained she said individuals; lists are available from twice a year at national conference, that she had suffered “mental the Anti Apartheid movement. 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The drug, which is made by the back at critics same company that produced A news story and an editor­ when they visited the University recently, Thalidomide, is supposed to Richardson-Merrell defended ial in a recent issue of LEEDS “I consider that in the present prevent sickness during pregnancy, both Professor Smithells and the STUDENT have prompted economic climate, holding two and had been extensively tested for drug, saying that the Professor was strong reaction from Trevor ing a demonstration, though NUS conferences per year is a waste of side effects. “nothing short of an expert.” Phillips, President of the Executive had specifically said that money that cannot be justified and Professor Smithells carried out a They pointed out that during the National Union of Students. was not the nature of the event”. I personally would certainly be in survey, at the request of the drug survey, there were very few over In the article, published in the In a written reply to Mr Phillips, favour of reducing the number to company, Richardson-Merrel on the counter sales of Debendox in 8th February edition, University Mr. Aulsebrook said that the Union one” 3,000 women using Debendox, and Britain, and that the drug has been Union President Steve Aulsebrook staff had been informed two days Mr Bateson is disappointed that reported that the drug was safe to marketed for 23 years, and been voiced his opinions of the National earlier that there would be a Mr Phillips has not answered the prescribe during preganancy. used by 30 million women world­ Union, criticising its “archaic demonstration, and consequently fundamental criticisms that were However, Professor Smithells said wide. structure” and “miserably inade­ 400 students from Leeds went to raised, he said, that at the time of his research, he The court also heard that the quate” campaign over Overseas London expecting to join the “He has ignored the major point did not realise that Debendox could drug company had donated 26,000 Students fee rises. The editorial demonstration. of what I was trying to say about be bought over the counter, and dollars to the University’s medical questioned the viability of a On the subject of conferences, NUS’ representation on the Over­ that this could have affected his department, but they claim that national union and criticised its which the editorial suggested could seas student campaign. He is trying findings, as his control group of this was unrelated to Professor structure. be limited to one a year, Mr. to bluster his way through.” women, not prescribed the drug Smitheil’s research, and was an In a letter to the editor, Hugh Phillips wrote, Mr Aulsebrook agreed that might have been taking it without endowment to the University to use Bateson, Mr Phillips said he was “a “The Executive favours reducing nothing positive had come out of his knowledge. as it wished. little disturbed” that Mr. Aulse­ the number of conferences to one: the exchange, he said, brook had not made his opinions it is Unions like yours, who rightly “There is a lot of misunderstand­ clear earlier. He defends the insist upon the regular account­ ing, and I think a lot of this would Rag to go for a National Union against the criticism ability of the Executive who stand be relieved if Mr Phillips accepted made by Mr. Aulsebrook, out for two each year”. my invitation to come to Leeds and particularly about the day of action Mr. Auslebrook’s reply to this talk. Communication by letter new world record on November 7th; he wrote was that, as he had said to a inhibits frank and constructive dis­ Rag is to build the world's 20p for the competition, which will “Some Unions turned up expect­ member of the NUS Executive cussion. I hope he will accept”. largest ever Scalextric track in the be divided into three age groups, Bond Street Centre next month, to 6—11, 12—17 and over 18. Prizes of Pictured below, the Third World Rich Man Poor Man MeaL held raise more money for local smaller race tracks will be provided last week in the University Refectory. 180 people ate Coq au charities. by Scalextric for the fastest lap­ ‘O’ and ‘A’ There will be three competitions time in each section. Vin, Shepherds Pie and Rice, and raised money for Third World on the track, which will be run The Bond Street Centre, while at projects. The diners were entertained by a light hearted sketch from the 10th— 1 5th March during first dubious about allowing which tried to show the way in which people in Third World levels to shopping hours. The track, supplied students to run the track in Leeds’ countries are exploited by multi-national companies. by Scalextric, will be zig-zag shaped prime shopping area, have agreed to and will occupy a space of 20 feet manage all the publicity, and the end ? by 30 feet, and will be 300 feet Rag committee hope to have a The future of “O” and “A” level long. celebrity to open the track on courses at Park Lane College is There will be an entrance fee of again threatened. March 10th at 12 noon. “The campaign by the principal George Hume, could affect next year’s entry, and lecturers’ jobs, TICKETS FOR BUDDY RICH CONCERT though this year’s entrants are OK” on Monday 10th March said Union President, Nigel Fisher. He continued, “George Hume at St. George’s Hall, Bradford, has always wanted to end the now on sale in the Union building courses, he’s been trying for years”. The move will reduce the £4.50 £3.50 £2.80 £1.80 opportunities for mature students plus coach fare if required in particular, as Mr Fisher Discount for members of ‘Union Jazz’ explained, “You can’t send a 45 year old woman to a grammar Telephone and postal bookings accepted school to do ‘A’ levels”. Park Lane + is the only place in Leeds offering LAST CHANCE ‘A’ level courses in subjects like psychology, sociology and law, as far as Mr. Fisher is aware. REAL ALE FOR YOUR PARTY, At the moment Mr. Fisher is OR TO DRINK AT HOME? undecided as to what action to COME TO THE take, but he is informing students ALE HOUSE with leaflets and will arrange a on Woodhouse Lane/Clarendon Road junction meeting to decide policy in the near Tel: 455447 Open Tues-Sat 12 - 2 & 5.30 - 9.30 future. 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From the begin­ STUDENT, and feel he has totally the University Student Health Mad’ (on the nuclear question) is in ning of the campaign the university misunderstood the play, which is Centre. isn’t best the Riley Smith Hall at 7.30 p.m. has combined plaintive cries of anything but “hollow”. As in all It should be noted that the tonight. protest at the fees increases with an Ayckbourn’s work, the comic above doctors are unable to put Dear Editor, Yours sincerely, abject willingness to implement surface is merely an attractive their case concerning Mr. Geoffrey Readers of Leeds Student may Students Against Nuclear them. framework for a deeply serious Brighton to either the student body be aware that ‘Students Against Energy The fundamental point made by look at the distress which or University Council, as this would Nuclear Energy’ (S.A.N.E.) was those in favour of occupation is permeates human relationships and inevitably involve a breach of formed last term to concert opposi­ now even clearer. Unity based on which so frequently expresses itself medical confidentiality. tion to the Government’s plans for the lowest common denominator- in grotesque behaviour. Richard We would point out to Mr. a major expansion of nuclear ie nominal opposition to the cuts — and Anthea do indeed appear to be Brighton that there are proper energy. Basically this involves Lanus is worse than useless; it creates the “paragons of the normal healthy channels through which complaints pumping vast amounts of Govern­ Dear Editor, impression that the proposals are bourgeois way of life”, but achieve against general practitioners may be ment money (our money) into a The inaction of LANUS’ Week being resisted when in fact the this by systematically dominating voiced, eg the General Medical system that has proved hazardous of Action can be summed up two­ ground is being prepared for their all those with whom they come Council, which would consider the and uneconomic in the past and fold; implementation. into contact and reducing them to evidence of both sides confidenti­ which, we feel is unlikely to Firstly, Leeds Area NUS can In opposition to this we advo­ some form of impotence by exploit­ ally. improve its record. It also involves organise, discuss and put into cate the unity of all those prepared ing their weakness. Thus, at the end This course of action would not the building of 15 Pressurised Water action, i.e., with posters, leaflets, to engage in a policy of active of the play, the vicar is totally only ensure Mr. Brighton’s privacy Reactors (P.W.R.) similar to ‘the campaigns suggested by the CO’s resistance to the fee increases. If possessed by his passion for his and avoid ill informed comment infamous Harrisburg reactor. The provided executives of the colleges the university authorities cannot be neighbours wife (which she is in all and interference, but also conserve Government is also concerned to put out information, posters and persuaded to join us in this when but name), his own spouse, Louise the reputations of two well-known step up research on the Fast leaflets and inform their members they must be made to do so. has become completely neurotic, doctors. Breeder Reactor (which operates on of what the campaigns are and wh\ The Assistant Registrar argues the business partner has been made Yours faithfully, plutonium — the stuff from which they are being held. that with government threatening aware of his mediocrity in the A. Marshall, atomic bombs are made, and a by­ Secondly, it seems to me that to ignore overseas students in its board room and on the tennis Paul Metcalfe product of conventional nuclear the majority of the students, except grant allocation to those institu­ court, and has reacted to these (Medical Students) reactors). for those that are CONCERNED tions refusing to comply with its humiliations with a heart attack, S.A.N.E. societies are springing about their education and their policies the university had no and Brian’s sexuality has been Dear Editor, up in Universities all over the fellow students, are self centred. On choice but to capitulate. But this destroyed by his abortive attempts I am writing to express my country. Basically, we believe that talking to students in various threat must be set in the overall with a succession of girlfriends to unqualified support for Dr. Ryan. I, nuclear power is unnecessary to our colleges I seem to get reactions of context of the fight against Tory overcome his feelings for Anthea, and many others, have the utmost energy future, and that the Govern­ “Oh well, this is my final year” or rule. The ability of the govern­ who in the final scene describes him faith in him as he is an excellent ment should be concentrating its “I receive a grant so why should 1 ment to impose its policies on the as “just a neutral”. clinician and general medical efforts both on energy conservation concern myself?” student movement will depend on The author’s skill lies in the fact practitioner. and on research into truly renew­ Surely what we are fighting for the outcome of struggles in society that he shows these disasters As Dr. Ryan is unable to discuss able alternatives — such as wind, is a decent educational system for as a whole. The resistance of, say, occurring because the victims allow individual cases on ethical grounds, wave and solar energy. Only a piti­ everybody, not only in our univer­ Lambeth Council to the cuts, themselves to be used in various he is of course at a distinct fully small amount has been spent sities, polytechnics and further hospital occupations, the steel ways by the “paragons”, who are disadvantage in being unable to on research into these forms of education colleges, but in schools strike; all these are crucial elements quite unaware of the wounds they reply to any allegations regarding energy — though with highly as they are our students of the in an interlinked process. So rather are inflicting. The removal of the his professional judgement. promising results - compared to future, so we should be concerned than seeking unity with university/ vicar’s fence, which his wife inter­ Has anybody ever thought that billibns already spent and about to for their educational rights. college authorities we must unite prets, quite accurately, as an there may be a genuine reason (ie be spent on nuclear energy. And we should also bear in mind with those sectors of the working invasion of their territory, is under­ not his homosexuality) or reaspns S.A.N.E. has a stall in the Uni­ that one day our own children will class and its representatives actively taken in a spirit of friendship; the why Mr. Brighton was referred for a versity Union extension every be the students of the future. resisting Tory policies. unwitting seduction of the vicar psychiatric opinion? Thursday lunchtime, and meetings Yours faithfully, The predictable failure of the begins with offers of beakers of Yours sincerely, on Friday lunchtimes, and anyone John Peel early day motion in the Commons soup and fistfuls of sausages, to G. Simmons, Dental School interested is very welcome to come LANUS General Secretary illustrates the bankruptcy of the which he reacts with childish Executive’s strategy. Even if other gratitude; while the humourless colleges had put more effort into Finn, who turns out to be a sleeping lobbying the most that could have partner in Richard’s business is Mainliner Crossword No. 70 been achieved would have been a destroyed by Richard’s refusal to Another one compiled by Pat Gale. All entries into the Union pill-sweetener (perhaps a hardship even go through the motions of Office by 1.00 p.m. on scheme) to pacify the dissident consulting him on important policy CLUES ACROSS 3 It’d piece together a morsel (6) Monday, please. The sender of Tory backbenchers. decisions, after which he publicly 1 To spring around could be quite 4 Talks a lot of bilge mostly! (4) exposes him as a failure in his athletic (8) 5 Still on a horse? (8) the first correct solution Aulsebrook’s statement that 8 The absolute best, but there’s no 6 Mediocre and depreciating too? (6) opened will win two free ‘We’ve just got to acknowledge that favourite sport. more to be said (4,4) 7 Tried new position in love - just for this is a democracy and we can’t These victims may deserve their 9 Supposed, without any afterthought, the censor! (6) tickets to the Extravaganza always have our own way’ should fate, but it is a fate no less disturb­ to be spurious (9) 10 Before or after taking tea its incred­ and to the Hyde Park Cinema ing for that reason, and to say that 10 News flash in the Orient makes one ibly vain (9) Last week’s winner was: be inscribed on his tombstone as a excited (6) 11 Northern tuna diet will keep you free fitting epitapK for his bankrupt “the tragedies are not communicated 12 A hoarse way of rubbing - not a way from infection! (9) Lucy Whicker approach to the campaign. as very tragic” misses the point of rubbing a horse! (7) 15 Hydrogen Sulphide is a bad example who wins two free tickets to We most now begin the pains­ entirely. Likewise the victims’ 13 He could trade on a split 6 — of an atmosphere changer (8) the Plaza! efforts to survive produce comic Carnaby for example (9) 16 Beaten? Yes, easily (8) taking task of rebuilding resistance 14 Southern fairy has love for plumage, 17 Marriage with no strings attached - Last week’s solution: to the fees increases directing this confrontations. It is no reproach to and, initially, also thinks everyone deems but with 550 involved it soon deterior­ ACROSS: Fiirburger, Skip, Rins. towards a campaign of all-out the author to accuse him of not his taste correct! (4,11) ated (8) Manuals, Elf, Siren, Semen, Ileum, Child. resistance to both the 24% increase having provided “two hours of 18 A cockney’s ‘at would be fair 18 Is this boss a mixed up cott? yes and Nipple, Ptosis, Sties, Asset, On top. for overseas students already rib tickling sutff’, which would recompense (3,3,3) no (6) Dildo, Sex, Sullied, Anti, Dish, Yes 21 Elucidate, and it will no longer be 19 Certainly not hard cash (6) Please. registered here and against the full have made him as insensitive as his dull (7) 20 Spear and pole assembled and DOWN: Foreskin, Bugger, Girls, Rim. economic cost’ fees being imposed two main protagonists. If anything 22 Frameless Van Gogh is daubed with unassembled (6) Knackers, Possum, Onanists, Fellatios, on newcomers. “middle classdom” comes out as handful of cod to be sure! (9) 23 There’s no point to this fencing any She, Clitoris, Pustules, Pet, Sodomite. the villain of the peace, not the 24 Seat of learning made up for seaweed more (4) Pirate, Penis, Day, Abused. (6) Yours, victor, gentility appearing as a 25 If a nip, or a nipper, is involved in a weapon every bit as devastating as melee, one should beat it (8) Paul Hodgkinson, the more crude forms of social 26 Almost stretched out until there was Colin Struthers, sparring. none left (8) John Weatherby, Yours faithfully, CLUES DOWN Supporters of the Overseas Alan Bullock, 1 Two poles have a meal and suffocate Students Action Group. Italian Dept. (8) 2 Love turns sour, but still has a certain divineness (8)

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LEEDS POLYTECHNIC UNION ELECTIONS The following candidates have been nominated — For President — Graham Lowe (Proposer Charlie Jones) Stevan Mrvos (Proposer Alex Rolfe) Lorraine Wells^(Proposer Sean Morris) For Deputy President — Charlie Jones (Proposer Graham Lowe) Trevor Posliff (Proposer Sean Morris) Chris Taylor (Proposer Mike Waterfalf)

Voting — Monday 3rd — Friday 7th March at City Site, Info point 9 a.m. — 7 p.m. Beckett Park, Bar 9 a.m. — 7 p.m. Brunswick Terrace Coffee Bar 12 a.m. — 3 p.m.

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you sleep in a certain•Beware room, ‘some­ cloisters one summer, when the tie Barghest Yorkshire people are reputed thing’ grabs you by the hair and ground suddenly gave way beneath pulls you out of bed and onto the him. Falling through into semi­ floor. Footsteps are also often darkness the man wandered about to be down-to-earth, but heard in the area that used to be until he suddenly discovered a large the servants quarters. chest. Just as he was about to open sightings of the supernatural The third ghost is a completely the chest (and of course find the unknown quantity. It is a tall man missing treasure) a phantom horse who wanders about the region of appeared from no-where and dealt abound in the county. the chapel dressed in riding clothes him a blow that knocked him out and a long cape. Staff at Temple cold. The man awoke to find him­ Newsam have no idea as to who he self in a heap in the cloisters. might be, and though he obviously Another story is that of a Chris Berry and Patti dates from the 17th or 18th mysterious barking dog, the tale is Centuries, he only first appeared that of “Hark to the Rover”. Hark Hewstone have been out ghost about 20 years ago. to the Rover was originally the During the last two years, in name of a row of cottages at the fact, members of staff have seen end of Abbey Lane, and a man who hunting. him fairly often, but unfortunately, lived there had his daughter they were too shy, or scared" of murdered in the Abbey grounds. He ghostly repercussions to talk about sent his dog out to look for the girl, him. and upon finding her, the dog gave Photographs by Eben Black. The staff were adamant that out a series of long mournful barks. there was no ‘spooky’ atmosphere Hearing Rover’s barking is now anyway, and that the ghosts were considered extremely bad luck, and “Phantom Lights” are often able to explain away an untimely or not malevolent but friendly. can even portend death. seen in mountainous country, unexpected death in their midest. Next to stately homes, abbeys Hospitals are another place Stately homes have always been and churches are the most popular where ghost legends abound, and the Yorkshire Pennines associated with the supernatural, places to find ghostly legends. mainly because. of the number of are no exception. There is a and Temple Newsam House is no There are always three legends people that die in them. Before you well known “Pennine Light” exception. The house was the about abbeys; that there is some cancel your next visit, though, it which many travellers on the stately home of the Ingram family, treasure hidden somewhere, that should be noted that they are road between Scrafton and and is now open to the public. It there is at least one secret passage nearly always benign, because of claims to be the stalking area of at running from the abbey to either the high standards of care they Witton, near Leyburn, claim least three ghosts, two of which are the Gatehouse or the village, and, experienced as they were passing to have seen; this is a bright certainly quite unusual, as ghosts of course, that there is a ghost, the through to the spirit world. light, similar to car headlights. go- average spectre around an abbey Dental Nurse Pamela Reardon It is seen from around a corner, The first ghost is the so-called being a monk, with the occasional discovered a typical case on her but vanishes when the comer is “Blue Lady” who is supposed to be headless horseman thrown in. ward when she was training at High turned. There have been many a member of the Ingram family Kirkstall Abbey lives up to these Royds Hospital. The ward used to sworn sightings of this light, and no who was attacked and robbed in demands. be the male geriatric, and every reasonable explanations offered. the park in the early 1800’s. The A Cistercian Abbey founded in now and then, one of the ex­ The Yorkshire Pennines have victim went insane as a result of 1152, Kirkstall was, like so many patients appears shuffling around in their mysterious light, but the the attack, and is said to continue others, dissolved in 1539 by his pyjamas and dressing gown, Yorkshire Dales have something far to haunt the* house and grounds Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII. much to the alarm of the female more frightening. The Barghest is a restlessly. The “Blue Lady” has It is the last Abbott of Kirkstall, geriatrics who now occupy the dog-like goblin portending death, been seen quite a large number of John Ripley, who is now meant to ward. and is the best known and most times, the most recent occasion haunt the Gatehouse of the Abbey. At Meanwood Hospital, the familiar spectre of the Dales. The being early last year. His bed room was on the top floor, Mansion’s section of the building is Barghest is described by those who Another part time inhabitant of and some caretakers’ dogs have alleged to be haunted by another Temple Newsam House Supernatural playmates or photographic trickery? — The Cottingley Fairies swear to have seen it as, “big as a Temple Newsam is the ghost of a refused to go up, but remain whin­ coloured lady. A Grey Lady, this little-ish bear, and yellow, with 19th Century Butler. It is not ing at the bottom of the stairs. time, she silently wafts up and great eyes like saucers”, and its known whether or not he was People who have occasionally had down its corridors, as though hospital guest is reputed to roa Of the University- buildings, particular haunt is the wild region insane as well, but simply that he to sleep in the Gatehouse have com­ mournfully searching for something Bradford Royal lnfirma:> ?r‘ough, only one, Weetwood Hall, around Trowler’s Gill in Wharfe- had a passion for dragging servant plained of mysterious creakings and lost. The Mansion is many centuries Casualty Department. An old trar reputed to be haunted, and the dale. The story is that it is fatal to girls around by their hair and bangings and of doors that open old, and she is thought to be an ex­ who used to come in for shelter, 'fey Lady who is alleged to roam catch the eye of the Barghest; throwing them out of the window. and shut by themselves. inhabitant of the house rather than now materialises in the kit: ’he old part of the Building has death is bound to follow. The more A number of subsequent house­ A 19th Century tale describes a r|ever been sighted by anyone now Photographic evidence? an ex-patient. looking for his customary cup superstitious Dales folk are thus keepers have claimed that still if man who was strolling around the Perhaps the most charming tea. lving at the hall. various photographic experts for fatal to psychic power.” The case of the Cottingley Fairies is the most closer examination. As for the photos themselves, notorious encounter with the supernatural in The main point in favour of the Sanderson points out that a single Kirkstall Abbey Temple Newsam House photos is that all the shots are exposure could be achieved by m m Yorkshire. single exposures. Not only that but carefully faking one photo, then close inspection also reveals a taking a genuine single exposure blurring around the fairies shot of the fake. To get the blurring Controversy has surrounded them since indicating that they have moved that seems to indicate the move­ during exposure. This seems to ment of the fairies, simply bump alleged photos of the fairies were published in destroy any doubts that they might the camera when taking the shots! 1920. merely be paper cuts. But where would two 10 and 13 However, not everyone is year olds girls get the skills to fake prepared to accept that the photos? Sanderson’s been doing his Cottingley Fairies are authentic just research on that one too, and it Chris Berry outlines the story and the case for because the photos can’t be proved indicates that the older of the two, and against. fakes. Among the spoilsports is Elsie Wright, might not have been Stuart Sanderson, Head of the totally innocent of photographic University Institute of Dialect and skills when her father handed over Stories of things that go scepticism of non-believers the Folk Studies, and leading academic his camera to her. As a child she pictures would never have been on the pictures. had considerable interests in the bump in the night are plenti­ taken. The young photographers, He first points to the dubious visual arts and developed painting ful, but hard evidence is a Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, circumstances in which the shots skills remarkable in one so young. much rarer thing. Photos like then 13 and 10 years old, were were taken. Independent witnesses Later on, she went on to help out the one shown here of fairies given a camera by Elsie’s father were never present, and when in a photographic studio. in Cottingley Glen near because he didn’t believe their story outsiders went to the glen with the However, despite all this girls after 1920 no more photos evidence mounted against them Bradford are themselves un­ that they played with fairies in the were forthcoming. neither of the girls, now old ladies, common, but what makes this Glen. He told them to go away and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also have ever confessed to faking the and four others like it so prove it, and prove it they did. aware of this weak point, but photos, and nobody can prove that special is that despite sceptical The photos so startled him that having said of the Cottingley Fairies they’re lying. Indeed, when the examination since they were he sent them to expert on the “the discovery by Columbus of a BBC interviewed them in 1971 for supernatural E. L. Gardner, who in new terrestrial continent is a lesser their programme on the Cottingley first published in 1920, turn contacted Sir Arthur Conan achievement”, he had a vested Fairies, they stuck firmly to their nobody has ever been able to Doyle. Both were at first inclined interest in explaining it away. How­ story that back in 1920 they played prove that they’re fakes. to dismiss them, but unable to trace ever, all he could suggest was that with and photographed fairies in In fact, if it wasn’t for the any fakery, they took them to “the processes of puberty are often Cottingley Glen. Page 8 LEEDS S T U D E N T -2 9 th February 1980 faster and better than he ever crowd, with a singer who would could). You may not agree that look more at home behind an up­ Prodigious professional Irish female ‘sensitive’ author Edna using a tape machine for a large market bar than on a stage, but O’Brien has yet another new book in Penguin, but is she as good part of the sound constitutes a their musical ability more than Books as many trendies seem to think? perTorm^ice, but when you makes up for their lack of visual consider that Orchestral presence. They present a musically Manouevres are concerned with excellent set of blues/soul based distance, then it all fits. As they pop which shows a distinct flair Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories heroine identifies with a silly cow? letter writing. Such additions as the say, their ideas are beyond their for a catchy hook. Waiting for Edna O’Brien Chris Berry history and development of the ability, so why lose those ideas? Lorraine being particularly repre­ Penguin £0.95 Flame In The Snow abbreviation “Esq.” provide tedious What they have to say is captiva­ sentative of this. Their sound relies Edna O’Brien writes melancholy Iulia de Beausobre and unnecessary padding. ting, ponderous, throbbing pulling on water-tight harmonies, offset by prose for sensiti\^ souls; suburban Fount Paperbacks The authors kindly condescend you into an edgy world. The music a Shadows style guitar sound with a exiles who tell their GPs there’s In this taxing but rewarding to apologise for any unavoidable whirls around you, pushing an solid rhythmic backdrop. something missing in their lives, book, Iulia de Beausobre recounts uses of technical jargon, endeavour­ intensity you may find disturbing By the time the band had played hoping all the while he’ll notice the Russian legend of St Serafim of ing where necessary to qualify and negative; self-indulgent ‘It don't bother me and the B-sides something wild in their eyes. These Sarov, one of Russia’s best loved these. perhaps, but very, very effective. to their early singles their danceable she consoles. Is it really “unavoidable”, They did a drastic reconstruc­ beat and everybody moving. Un­ However she is terribly trendy ‘local’ saints, who died almost a tion of ‘Waiting for the man’, bring­ century ago. though, to refer to the content of a. ing out the most from a much fortunately, though, time ran out these days and won the Yorkshire Conventional literary sources letter as, first of all, “body” and they had to finish with the Post Novel Award for 1971, so we have been discarded in favour of a followed, presumably for the less played song. A disturbing noise, frenetic Valerie. In terms of enjoy­ must at least try to take her more vivid and moving translation technically minded, by “text” and structured and just within control. ment this was, quite simply, the seriously. Indeed she cannot simply of the oral tradition as delivered to then, for those of us still in the They finally played ‘Electricity’, best gig that I have attended this be dismissed as another romantic Iulia by Russian peasants in a con­ dark the fuller qualification, “the insulted the audience and left. year. It would be a pleasure to see fiction writer; her stories are not centration camp near Sarov. heart of the matter”. Eben Black bands like the Distractions and The escapist. The book deals with the theme Condensed to a quarter of its The Distractions Cheetahs supplant the machine- Each of the heroines in .this of the religious peasant’s preoccu­ size this would be a useful refer­ Fan Club made music of Numan. collection of stories is comfortably pation, throughout the 18th and ence book; in its present form — The Distractions are a motley Don Watson off, but thwarted. Thwarted by cir­ 19th Centuries, with the widening don’t bother reading it. cumstances, by men who fail them, Gillian Gardner but suffering in silence, not striving gulf between the Old Believers and and champing at the bit. This is the the rest of the Orthodox Church. key to their appeal; those who will Serafim’s spiritual development is not take a risk for fear of losing the closely followed, often to an little they’ve got can now see them­ exhausting degree, from birth to Drama Preview selves as silent martyrs. death; his first spiritual awakenings, Gigs his struggle to choose the right '• w fe *Y * 4 * J - \ , " 'J ' •* V ' f No wonder Jane Austen gets an ■ approving reference in In The path, his years of soul-searching Hours of Darkness. If Edna O’Brien solitude, and his eventual selfless ‘Hoppla — Such is Life’ van Winkle character o f Karl sees herself as a new Austen, there determination to God and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Workshop Theatre Thomas, and an ex-revolutionary are certainly similarities, not only Mankind. Fan Club 4—8 March, 7.30 p.m. who has spent the last seven years in theme but also in style. Both go If read with patience and The two members of Orchestral in a lunatic asylum, and is now for mocking observant humour and interested concentration, this may Manoeuvres have been together Next week’s Workshop Theatre searching for his old friends in a fluid simplicity. prove both intellectually stimulat­ since 1976, doodling about with production is the British Premiere changed worls. However, I remain unconvinced. ing and profoundly moving. Being tape recorders in the Wirral. Then of Ernst Toller’s ‘Hoppla — Such is In this it parallels Toller’s own O’Brien tends to be breathily self- neither patient or sufficiently they decided to create rather than Life’, a major German political experiences — he himself was conscious, and has no sensitivity in interested, I found it mildly re-use, bought instruments and a work of the 1920s, involving a large arrested as a member of the Munich her choice of words, or her ideas. touching, but rather tedious tape-machine, signed to Din-disc cast of 25 who play a totS of 48 Soviet in 1919 and spent the next Take this: ‘The cows looked at her, reading. two months ago, and here they are roles between them. five years in jail. The play is a testa­ suspicious.... four of them leaped Gillian Gardner headlining on a tour. Anyone who The play was originally written ment to his disillusion. over the barbed wire and back into A Guide to Letter Writing has ever been to the Faversham for the opening of Erwin Piscator’s Peter Bone’s production follows the adjoining field, the remaining K. Graham Thompson and DS must have heard their ‘Electricity’ Political Theatre of Berlin in 1927, Pascator’s own direction style by cows began to race around. Mrs. Bland on the jukebox. and has now been specially counterpointing the action with Reinhardt thought, I know what Pan Information It’s not fashionable to be translated into English by Peter documentary slides. This gives the you are feeling — you are feeling This so-called practical guide progressive at the moment, but Bone, Director of this production. piece background, and is lost and muddled and you have contains a wealth of boring and progressive Orchestral Manoeuvres ‘Hoppla’ sets out to contrast the reminiscent of the technological • gone astray.’ Apart from being a irrelevant information, of little use certainly are. Not the stylised wiggl­ decadence of German society in advances of the 1920s in its use of statement of the obvious, who else to anyone but the most earnest ing of Gary Numan (whose ‘Are 1927 with the revolutionary nulti-media techniques. would allow it to be said that her student of the art and history of friends electric?’ they performed fervour of 1919 through the Rip Chris Berry

LUU E V E N T S EXTRAVAGANZA-MAR. 7 Radio 1s JOHN PEEL Foma Paradiddie Deadnnger; BBC LOUNGE umn JAZZ IN THE MJ; a mystery group inc. Don Heller Nervosa the statics Dennis Harms quartet Jack Ai rey quartet Beans solid disco inl.I.Vlounge & disco Psycho 1am BAR M another mysteny band ticketsC£1D Prom ARTAN BAR L.U.U. LEEDLEEDS STUDENT - 29th February 1980 Page 9 The Wanderers appropriate sixties music (notably Despite some scenes of violence, THE WANDERERS seems to ABC ‘I’m a Wanderer’) it still seems dis­ bear more resemblance to a Disney film than anything else. Those who enjoyed ‘American jointed and overlong as a whole. It But in THE ROSE Bette Midler excels in her portrayal of Janis Graffitti’/The Warlords’, ‘Invasion is probably worth seeing if you Films of the Bodysnatchers’ and ‘Animal enjoyed ‘American Graffltti’ and Joplin. House’ should definitely not miss like the music of the period and can this film, which is a compilation of ‘Bleep out’ the boring bits. themes from all these and many Tim Stevenson more. There is a proliferation of plots as if four scriptwriters who weren’t speaking to one another had all worked on the same film. The Rose Set in the midsixties, ‘The Odeon Wanderers’ purports to follow the The Rose avoids the usual fate of a New York street gang pitfalls of films of its type and sets called the Wanderers who get a new standard both musically and involved in all sorts of bother with dramatically. lots of heavy people, but because It deals with the career of an of the Disney-like quality of the insecure ex-junkie (Bette Midler) plot and direction we all know it’ll who has been pushed into be OK in the end. There are lots of superstardom by her manager, a potential rumbles, mostly with faintly incongruous Englishman another extra heavy gang called played by Alan Bates. The usual the Baldies who look like refugees plot lines of such films — the from a Munsters movie and are phenomenal stage success aptly described as ‘pricks with contrasted with the emotional ears’, but mostly the possible insecurity of the performer off­ tensions of the situation are stage are here in spades, but even defused by the intervention of the cliches are handled with great a Sylvester Stallone look-alike beat­ dexterity. ing off Baldies in all directions and At one point the Rose has uttering immortal lines like ‘leave escaped from her entourage with an the kid alone’. AWOL sergeant played Frederick Original dialogue or action are Forrest. As they get out of the car not featured strongly at all, but this into the rainy forecourt of a down­ isn’t really important in a film that market diner Dyer says, deadpan: for the most part attempts no social ‘Yeah, let the good times roll...’ statements. Its ‘X’ certificate is This line could have fallen very flat, warranted only by a profusion of yet it works very, very well. strong language and the odd semi- Of course The Rose is based on naked female. the life of Janis Joplin, and Bette The strength of ‘The Wanderers’ Midler’s voice has all the quality of comes from individual moments Joplin at her best. THE WANDERERS more than from the film as a while. Using blues songs like ‘Take When one hero steps in to protect another little piece of my Heart’ the little guys from the bullies, the and ‘When a Man loves a Woman’, scene comes over as a well done she sings about the small town loser parody of the serious nature of she once was. Off-stage she still such episodes in the ‘Good guy= tries to find the life she had then, white stetson, bad guy= black when she did not have thousands of stetson’ cowboy movies. The poten­ people draining her. For such a long tial tension in a scene where the film (2% hours), interest never Baldies intend to remove the flags. When I saw it the audience private parts of two wanderers by even stayed for the credits, listening throwing rocks attached to their to the last song. Bette Midler is members by rope, over a bridge is superb, both on stage and off, and deflated to ridicule when the rocks the film itself is superb. splash into the river below with a Steve Brimble good twenty feet of rope to spare (sighs of relief from the Wanderers and disappoined guffaws from the Baldies). The Lovebug An episode that potentially Odeon involves much blood and death The Lovebug was first released occurs when four Wanderers find in 1970, and due to its success was themselves in the East Side of New followed by two more films involv­ York amongst some extremely ing the energetic little car with a heavy people (baseball bat and mind of its own — Herbie. motor cycle chain types) in a thick The film is totally escapist, fog. Solitary figures loom like providing light-hearted entertain­ zombies from behind lamp-posts ment, aimed at the “family”. and around street comers, and all Although the film has its funny looks set for some serious violence, moments, the story line is too but our heroes escape with little simple and predictable, and a lack trouble. We know that when these of inspiration has robbed the film heavies intrude on a minor gang of enough excitement to maintain fight-cum-football game between audience interest. Even the car Wanderers (Italians) and blacks, all rallies, despite the original fast THE ROSE the good kids will unite and beat movement soon become tedious. the bad druggies in true Disney Archetypal characters, as might be World fashion. expected, dominate the film, and There are some minor social although it is ideal to take the kids points to be gleaned from ‘the to, it does not have the same appeal Wanderers’, but despite good for students. moments and some excellently Philipa Bragman iOl Calverley y Street a — 442111K (Book WOYZECK (AA) Director Werner also at Union Travel Office) Herzog Buchner's ignorant soldier is driven to despair by a sophisticated, Until 8th March ruthless and indifferent society. Alan Ayckbourn's Saturday 1st March at 11.15pm JOKING APART THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (X) "...had the audience on the edge of Jack Nicholson plays the host of a late hysteria." GUARDIAN night chat show. "...my job basically is to raise the Sunday March 2nd at 7.30 p.m. standard of popular entertainment." A Hitchcock Double-Bill ALAN AYCKBOURN SECRET AGENT (A) and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT (A) 12th — 29th March Both demonstrate Hitchcock's fascina­ IT'S A MADHOUSE! tion with the ambiguity and unreliability of appearances. First produced at Manchester's Con act All seats 90p. Theatre, "It's a Madhousel" by the Liverpudlian Alan Bleasdale examines Book now for the All Night Suspense on the effect of the institution on the March 1 5th at 11.1 5 p.m. Tickets £2.50. individual. **.....a compassionate and remarkably MUSIC funny comedy." DAILY TELEGRAPH Friday March 14th at 11.15 p.m. THE LONDON JAZZ COMPOSERS' FILM THEATRE ORCHESTRA Friday 29th February at 11.15pm Students £1 and 50p. THE LOVEBUG

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'Fly From Your Local RETURN AIR FARES Airport’ TO THE FAR EAST:- WHY GO DOWN PENANG £378 THE PUB ON LEEDS/BRADFORD KUALA LUMPUR £358 AMER SINGAPORE £374 SATURDAY NIGHT BANGKOK £332 -WHEN YOU CAN LEEDS/BRADFORD DELHI £375 For the uninitiated, the student travel office is situated on the ground floor of the t-/ _ university union. It’s services are available to all students, irrespective of where he or she GO DOWN THE AMSTERDAM £63.00 BOMBAY £375 is studying. In fact it is to the amazement of the staff, where their clientele do come £71.00 WEEKEND RETURN from! Last year students were travelling down from Aberdeen to book budget flights to CHAMPS ELYSEES — PARIS Los Angeles. Bookings coming in from all over Yorkshire being commonplace, and quite £82.00 mundane. PARIS The office has six permanent members of staff, some little, but beautifully marked. EUROTRAIN OFFERS INEXPENSIVE RAIL TRAVEL FOR ALL FARES QUOTED ARE FROM LONDON They have probably as much travel experience, as you will find in any town centre travel EVERYONE UNDER 26 YEARS OLD MANCHESTER agency. In other matters they are, however, quite naive. In fact, some of them have spent a number of years, more than they care to recollect, with other travel agencies and BRUSSELS £79.50 AND ARE BOOKABLE THROUGH THE TRAVEL OFFICE airlines, before discovering the error of their ways. • DESTINATIONS IN 22 COUNTRIES Leeds is in the vanguard of student travel services, being a proud operator for over • STOPOVERS AVAILABLE COPENHAGEN £89.00 ADVANCE PURCHASE LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION twelve years. It has, to the delight of its hard pressed staff, the largest turnover of sales of any campus travel office in England. • NO FUSS: ALL YOU NEED IS A PASSPORT ZURICH £96.00 Ever looking forward to spread the gospel, and being gluttons for punishment, the • REALLY SEE EUROPE - MEET THE LOCALS travel staff has infiltrated Park Lane, and Trinity and All Saints Colleges. The travel staff • TRAIN TRAVEL IS FUN being present on these sites over lunchtime periods. PLUS MANY MORE After years of conditioning, the nice people of the STO now accept the propaganda that students are in fact quite poor. The emphasis therefore has to be on low cost travel. PICK UP A PRICE LIST FROM: Many of operators sold, would not be on sale in the swish town centre offices, they wouldn’t be that daft. For example who but students would travel all the way to Greece THE TRAVEL OFFICE TEL: 448877 L-U.U. TRAVEL OFFICE - AGENTS FOR:- by coach, even though it only costs £30. However, in mitigation, students are lucky that they can book Transalpino and Eurotrain tickcts, both giving up to 50% reductions off LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION ordinary rates. Providing that is that you arc under 26 years of age, and not “an old codger”. Other popular sales, are the Student Charter Flights”. They differ from your average charter, in as much as they offer single journey, and extended stays. Some of the package tours on offer, arc quite off beat, and thus totally suitable for the student market. How about 7 weeks holiday in a converted double decker bus, MANOR TRAVEL seeing twelve countries to boot, cost from £269 per person. For the fresh air fiends, try a ten weeks jaunt to Katmandu, for a mere £360. The buses are equipped with permanent beds, and modern kitchens. What else do you want! If you can think of something, the travel office might supply it, especially if its a travel request. In conclusion, given the LIMITED chance the travel staff will tell you where to go.

g r o u n d f l o o r FOR ALL YOUR TRAVEL UNION BUILDING LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION REQUIRMENTS CONTACT: THE TIA V R OFFICE Tel: 448877

ATHENS PARIS HOLIDAYS IN ISRAEL British Student Travel Top Deck Travel BY BY WITH SUMMERTIME CAMPING COACH HOVERCRAFT HOSTS HOSTS STUDENT TRAVEL SERVICE LTD THE WORLD'S LARGEST IN OPERATOR OF CONVERTED FRANCE - ITALY - GREECE DOUBLE DECKER BUSES INTERNATIONAL STUDENT IDENTITY CARDS

EXPLORE EUROPE—SCANDINAVIA RUSSIA - NTH AFRICA AND BRITISH RAIL CARDS ASIA FROM ONLY KIBBUTZ HOLIDAYS £5.30 DAILY - 5 DAY WEEKEND TRIPS £47 STUDENT CHARTER FLIGHTS DESERT TOURS 2 WEEK HIGHLIGHTS TO EUROPE OF EUROPE £139' HOTEL HOLIDAYS 3 WEEK MINI- EUROPEAN £149 YOUTH HOSTELLING U ALSO LONGER CAMPSITE & BUNGALOW HOLIDAYS TRIOS TO EUROPE REDUCED CONTINENTAL RUSSIA NTH AFRICA 10 WEEKS RAIL TICKETS YOU CHOOSE THE KIND OF HOLIDAY YOU WANT LONDON- AND BOOK WITH L.U.U. TRAVEL OFFICE------KATMUNDU £380 DISPLAY OF CAMPING EQUIPMENT IN THE RILEY SMITH ADVANCE BOOKING CHARTER WHATEVER APPEALS TO YOU. WHETHER IT IS FOUR WEEKS HALL, LEEDS UNIVERSITY UNION - WED 5th MARCH WORKING ON A KIBBUTZ. A GRAND TOUR OF ISRAEL USING FLIGHTS TO THE U.S.A. AND THE CAMPING OR HOSTELLING FACILITIES OR A TOUR ROUND RESERVATIONS CAN BE MADE THROUGH B.S.T. & STUDENT TRAVEL OFFICE REPRESENTATIVES IN CANADA THE SINAI ON A CAMEL. MAKE YOUR CHOICE FROM THE YOUR STUDENT TRAVEL OFFICE ATTENDANCE TO ANSWER ANY QUERIES.; SPECIAL LEAFLET AVAILABLE AT YOUR STUDENT TRAVEL OFFICE. BREAKING AWAY at 2.30, 7.35 POLYFLIX Thoresby Community Theatre Holt Next week: LA LUNA Thursday at 6.30 in HI 14 Park. cTVl usic CINEMA Sunday: 2.30, 7.00 AU HASARD BALTHASAR and Weekdays: 2.30,7.35 MABLER’ 40p entry. RED LADDER THEATRE POLY PRESIDENT'S BALL HYDE PARK Show POWER MAD, Tonight in Thurs: The March of the Slobs Tonight and tomorrow: LOUNGE Riley Snith at 8.00 Tour with The Charlie Parkas; SILENT MOVIE at 7.05, and Tonight, tomorrow and next week Albertos Y Los Trios Paranoios; YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, at 8.40 YANKS with Vanessa Redgrave and TEATR0 POPULAR CHILEN0 The Smirks. City Site Refec at Late night movies at 11.00 p.m.: Richard Gere. Sunday 4.45, 7.20 Present THE SOUTHERN WORLD 9.00, Bar ‘til 12. Tickets £1.25 Friday: NEW YORK, NEW YORK Week 5.40, 8.10 IS CALLING US from Info Point. with Robert De Niro and Liza GRAND THEATRE Mon at 7.30 in RSH-£1. POLY PRESIDENT'S DANCE Minelli. COTTAGE ROAD Until Sat 8th March, Leeds Wed at City Site 8.00 p.m. Guest Saturday: DIRTY HARRY starring Tonight and tomorrow at 5.20,8.00 Amateur Operatic Society present Group — City Limits. Late Bar, Clint Eastwood. STAR TREK with the usual crew BRIGADOON (Gilbert & Sullivan Tickets 40p. Sunday for 6 days (not Wednesday) and a picturesque addition. for the uninitiated!) LUU ENTS Late film tonight SALON KITTY 7.00pm nightly, Sat Mat at 2.00 The Pretenders get plenty of brass ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN at 10.45 Next week: DISCOS in their pockets by selling out the with Robert Redford and Dustin Woody Allen in MANHATTEN CIVIC THEATRE GRAND FUNK CHARITY DISCO Refec on Sunday. Hoffman. Sunday 5.00, 7.20 Week 5.50, 7.45 Tonight and tomorrow Tonight in Refec; 8 — 1, bar ‘til CHARLIE MO ENTS Sunday 7.40, Weekdays 8.10 Tonight at 8.00 Complex (who And Clint Eastwood in THE TOWER practice in Andy’s basement) with GAUNTLET’ Tonight and tomorrow: Disco — 40p. Sundays 5.45, Weekdays 6.15, HALLOWEEN at 1.50,5.15,8.40 LUUJAZZSOC Wednesday Matinee at 2.30: PAT Next week: SUN DOWN starring Tomorrow in Tartan Bar at 8 p.m. GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID Joan Collins and Charles Grodin. STAN TRACEY TRIO plus support Starring Bob Dylan. Sunday 4.40, 8.05 surprise - PAUL LACEY BAND! Weekdays: 1.35,5.05,8.35 LUU F0LKCLUB Wednesday Evening Special at 6.45: Also SHOUT AT THE DEVIL with Tues at 8.00 in the Lipman SCAREGROW and PORTNOY’S Roger Moore and Lee Marvin GRAHAM & EILEEN PRATT. COMPLAINT Sunday: 3.00, 6.25. GREAT HALL ENTS Weekdays: 3.25,6.50 SADLER HALL FOLK GROUP ABC 1 perform on Sat in Great Hall — : Tonight and tomorrow: PLAZA £1.25 ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ Tonight and tomorrow: TOWN HALL Starring Clint Eastwood. 5.00 6.55 SEDUCTION and FRENCH LOVE Tomorrow, Marian Montgomery Next week: THE WANDERERS Times unavailable. and Richard Rodney Bennett Sunday: 2.10,4.05, 7.00 Next week: SEXTASY perform JUST FRIENDS. Tickets Weekdays: 1.30,4.30,7.35. Sunday: 5.15, 8.35 55p - £2.00. 7.30 Weekdays: 2.25, 5.45,9.00 B0DINGT0N HALL FORMAL DO Also LOVE CLINIC Tonight: SQUEEZE & WRECK- ABC 2 Sunday: 3.00, 6.45 LESS ERIC live plus SADLER Tonight, tomorrow and next week: Weekdays: 12.40,3.55,7.15 FOLK CLUB. ALSO Films, Disco “10” with Bo Derek and Dudley and Food — until 5.00; Bar until Moore. LEEDS PLAYHOUSE FILM 2.30. Unfortunately sold out! Sunday: 4.15,7.05 THEATRE FAN CLUB Week: 5.40,7.35 Tonight at 11.15 p.m. Tues Sore Throat. Members 75. WOYZECK - film of Buchner’s Non-Members £1.00 ABC 3 play. Saturday 1st March at Tonight and tomorrow: 1M5 p.m.: THE KING OF APOCALYPSE NOW. 3.55, 7.55 MARVIN GARDENS starring Jack Next week: Nicholson. The Wanderers at the ABC MISCELLANY Sunday Mar^h 2nd at 7.30: OMAN WEEK ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ SECRET AGENT based on Leeds Art Theatre present THERE midnight. Live Band. Donations to 3rd - 7th March. Exhibition every Sunday 5.00, 6.55 Somerset Maughams “Ashenden”, GOES THE BRIDE 7.30pm University Nursery. day 10 — 4 in Tartan Bar. Mon 7pm Week: 5.30,7.30 directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Tuesday until Sat 15th March in LT21 — Film Also FOREIGN CORRESPON­ Leeds Children’s Theatre in KING CHARLIE M0 DISCO Tues 7pm in LG15 — Lebanese 0DE0N 1 DENT PATCH AND MR SIMPKINS With the Complex Band. Tonight. Speaker. Wed 7pm in LT20 — Tonight, tomorrow and next week Late Bar. Tickets 40p Speaker. THE ROSE with Bette Midler LUU FILM SOC PLAYHOUSE DEVONSHIRE HALL DISCO BREADLINE ART GALLERY Sunday: 3.40,6.35 Tonight at 7 pm in RBLT: Until Sat 8th March, Ayckbourn’s Tonight — Late Bar. Paintings by Greame Wilson and Weekdays: 4.40, 7.35 RED RIVER: JOKING APART. The Times says GAYSOC Ramsay Rourt until 27th March Tuesday at 7 p.m. in LT 21 RSB: ‘It is a superb and chilling piece of Wednesday 5th March: 9—12 in the 9.30 — 6pm (closed Friday). 0DE0N 2 KILLING OF A CHINESE work’ (and I thought it was a Doubles Bar. Gay Soc disco LUU TABLE TENNIS Tonight and tomorrow: BOOKIE comedy!) 7.30 p.m. (8.00 on Tues­ LUU DENTAL STUDENTSOC Tournament to be held on March NIGHTWING at 6.30 Wednesday at 7 pm. in LT 21 day) No Sun or Mon perf. Tonight, 8.30 — 12 in Lipman. Late 1st. Open to alL Univ. Students. Next week: THE BIG BOSS RBLT: CRIA CUERVOS. Bar. Entry forms from Table tennis Club Sunday: 4.35, 8.15 YOUTH THEATRE POLY DISCO notice board and caretaker in PE Weekdays: 1.25,5.05,8.45 ENGINEERING SOC Wed 5th ‘til Sat 8th present BIG Double disco at City site. Centre. Monday at 7.30 in Mech Eng “A” AL — a play with music and dance Tomorrow. ART EXHIBITION 0DE0N 3 MAGNUM FORCE starring Clint based on life of A1 Capone TARTAN BAR DISCO By Fine Art students in University Tonight and tomorrow: Eastwood: Members 25p, others45p Students 30p; at 7.30 p.m. — Ralph Thursday in guess where. 20p Gallery ‘til 21st March. 10—5 p.m.

WHAT? LET Golden Floes help you exploit your I GO OUT with Andy....I knock about AGM. Landscape, a jazz-funk DOES DAVE Whalley still wash his full zeta potential. with Judy.....Paul? well, I’ve slept with fusion band in concert 11pm—12 persona equipment when someone from 3cs is in DON’T BE shy Hug a friend. Pual. JJ midnight in Refectory. Discos 8pm I the lab? WOODSTOCK, WHO are you? IS Mrvos really Zaphod Beeblebrox!? STOP PRESS Hamburg Breweries expect POTATOE, MOUSEY, chopper, Lemmie This is dedicated to Al, and excellent —11pm and 12 midnight to 1 am. are you trying to bring some entertain­ (sic) and ice-cool caricature of JR Ewing, Bar extension till 12 o’clock. Ad­ MICK, TANYA and Paul would like to easter boom mission goes up after 10.30 p.m. thank Struan for the meatballs and FINANCIAL WIZARD will accept ment to Badger’s column. do I still have a job? Donations to University nursery. advise the future Mrs Dott that he hasn't British imports at Easter storage JEFF, 1 Cumberland Road awaits your Isn’t it time that you grew out of the got any. cramped, but guaranteed. return. school girl bit, chasing them around the PHOTOSOC WEDNESDAY March QUENTIN IS a cockney. Is there any truth in the rumour that a THANKS FOR a fantastic birthday, Ian bar is too much even for my morals, and 5th. Busy week this. Firstly a tour MICK McGILL datelines only failure prominent steward for Ents, Events and LULU, DO llamas really flare their I use a torch and vaseline. round the Yorkshire Post on Wed­ DO YOUR heads need cleaning? Consult Jazz Club is in fact a Bee Gee? Yes. nostrils? From your cuddly teddy bear nesday afternoon. Meet outside the Hopeless hulk handyman extraordinaire! (JR Ewing) (with a Y) Post at 2pm. See noticeboard for He can’t even change a light bulb. NOTICE is hereby given by the Leeds JAYNE OF Barbier, do you keep your map and details. Also a lecture by BENJAMIN AND MONTY thank Anna Area Hug a friend society that Friday customers satisfied. for her kind wishes, with a mammouth 29th February - Thursday 6th March TIM, WHAT DID you need a bollard for Mr. D. Mackrell explaining colour lot of love. is Hug a Friend Week anyway? D&K classified printing and colour negatives. AZG Amnesia or so you claim, GEOFF DO good friends often stay the WELL, SINCE my baby left me, 7.30pm Wednesday Houldsworth B. remember 71279 night. I’ve found a new place to dwell, STOMPERS Don’t forget the competition. DON’T MISS Hug a friend week. DAVE HATES sally Down at the end of Victoria street, STOMPERS EVERY FRIDAY at 1pm in QUENTIN THE Pearly queen. IF YOU WANT serenading beneath your Called Iceberg hotel..... STOMPERS mobile disco, Leeds Emmanuel Church. Wholemeal STRU Luvs April. window, ask the hulk It was going to be Victoria terrace, 620385 bread and soup 25p, in aid of MICK LIKES his food, Tanya, but he THANKS TO ALL who made the but it doesn’t scan. LOST, THURSDAY 21st February, Amnesty International prefers his pudding in bed, Jacqui. Sphmores 14th and 15th so enjoyable SHOW THAT you care, hug a friend hyde Park Pub: Flat black briefcase THESES TYPED, good standard of IS ARTHUR really a wimp? O god yeah (15=20 if you’re a computer. JAN, MARGARET and Phillippa, is it K LAB must die John Briggs OK, WHERE THE Hell is my green still only once a term? Mike Tom and containing fifth year finalist’s typing, ring Leeds 741662 after DOES M.HIP (3?) object to playing saucepan. John, no hanky panky in t’lakes notes. Please return case and/or 5pm. Reasonable rates. tennis with S Dunn (44)? MAINLINER WOULD Like to thank all LARA, DO I really talk too much? contents to Houldsworth, Univer­ FOR YOUR Summer in America, DOES JASON Ellis Abraham 2ch nark those LEEDS STUDENT readers who JOHN, Colossians 3, 5-14 A well- sity security, or ring 752390 see the BUNAC table in the Uni­ to John Briggs? helped him to solve his Valentine wisher. GRAND FUNK SOCIETY Friday versity Union Extension every WEALLEANS smells problem. LUUCU 1 Peter 5:14 29th February 1980 7pm—8pm Friday lunchtime 1—2pm.

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